RE: QUERY TO SQL

Dan:

On Tue, 19 March 2002, "Dan Bale" wrote:

>   So what's
> IBM's excuse?  They know the internals of the *QRYDFN object.  Heck, it
> appears that, with enough work, one could print a query definition and
> create the correct matching SQL just from that.

Perhaps, but the RTVQMQRY isn't really designed to handle *QRYDFN objects... it 
should use *QMQRY objects as the source. IBM managed to get it to work with 
*QRYDFN objects as well.

However, a compiled *QRYDFN can include more than just structured query 
statements. Compiled *QRYDFNs are close to being 'programs'. It's easily 
conceivable that there is no appropriate SQL for some Query/400 constructs.

That's not to say that JOINs aren't handled poorly, but I suspect that's 
primarily because RTVQMQRY hasn't been updated significantly since SQL JOINs 
became as advanced as they are now. And I suspect that's simply because there 
aren't enough sites asking for it.

Tom Liotta

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